The story takes place in a conservative Danish city, where the widower Morten Borgen antagonises the entire city because of his heretic doubts.
Even his children, Anders and Mikkel, don't believe in God. The third son, Johannes, believes, instead, to be Jesus Christ.
Ordet is about the conflict between the inner faith and the organized religion movements.
Based on a play by Kaj Munk, a Danish Lutheran priest who was killed by the nazis because he declared his faith to God instead to Hitler.
Country: Danimarca
Year: 1954
Running time: 121'
Format: 35 mm
Language: danese
Subtitles: italiano
Genre: fiction
Screenplay: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cinematography: Henning Bendtsen
Editing: Edith Schlüssel
Music: Poul Schierbeck
With: Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass, Birgitte Federspiel, Ove Rud, Ejner Federspiel, Gerda Nielsen, Hanne Agesen
Produced by: Palladium Film
